Another couple of fruit based soups for you to try. The first recipe includes chicken stock but I think vegetable stock would work. I’m a little squeamish about meat based stock with fruit recipes but if you’re okay with it, try the original!

Avocado Soup with Almonds

Ingredients

2 ripe avocados

2-3 tablespoons of lemon juice

½ pint / 300mls / 1¼ cups of chicken stock

4fl.oz / 100mls / ½ cup of double cream

3-4 tablespoons of medium white wine

salt and freshly ground pepper

1 tablespoon of toasted slivered almonds

Method

Halve the avocados, discard the stones and scoop out the flesh. Liquidize with the lemon juice

This fruit soup includes a recipe for dumplings, similar to the snow dumplings on this page (ink to apricot soup page). Scroll down for a delicious gooseberry soup (recipe suggests cooling the gooseberry soup for four hours so make it early!)

Rhubarb Soup with Berries

Ingredients

1lb / 450g rhubarb

40z / 100g / ½ cup sugar

½ pint / 300mls / 1¼ medium white wine

8oz / 225g raspberries

1lb / 450g strawberries

For the dumplings:

1 egg white

2-3 tablespoons of caster sugar

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

Method

Wash the rhubarb and cut into small pieces.

Put the sugar in a pan and heat, stirring all the time, until it becomes golden brown

Pour in the wine and heat, stirring, until the caramelized sugar has dissolved.

Add the rhubarb and raspberries. Bring to the boil, then cover and simmer for 10 minutes

Press through a sieve and return to the pan.

Hull the strawberries and cut them in half.

Stir into the soup and leave to cool.

Dumplings:

Whisk the egg white until stiff, add 1 teaspoon of the sugar and whisk again until glossy.

Bring a pan of water to the boil then remove from the heat.

Take small portions of the egg white mixture using a teaspoon and drop them into the water.

Cover the pan and leave for five minutes until the dumplings become firm

Remove with a slotted spoon, drain and float on the soup.

Combine the remaining sugar with the cinnamon and sprinkle over the dumplings